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19th International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication

Berlin, Germany, 1–4 December 2003

 

 

HFT03 Conference Programme

 

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SUNDAY 30 Nov

18:00 - 20:00 Informal Welcome Reception at HHI lobby

 

 

MONDAY 1 Dec

(Venue: HHI)

09:00 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 10:30 Welcome / Opening

  • Lothar Mühlbach, HFT03 Scientific Programme Committee
  • Joachim Hesse, Director Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
  • Bruno von Niman, appointed chairman HFT Permanent Steering Committee
     

10:30 - 11:10 Keynote talk 1

Origins of Human Factor HFT and ITU

Speaker: John Karlin, retired Department Head of Human Factors - AT&T Bell Laboratories
 

 

 

11:10 - 11:30 Coffee

 

11:30 - 12:30 Real-time Human Communication   

Chair: Ed Israelski

 

Bjørn Hestnes, Peter Brooks, Trond Ulseth, and Svein Heiestad
Quality of Experience in real-time person-person communication - User based QoS expressed in technical network QoS terms

 

Peter Brooks and Bjørn Hestnes
Production of user-centred technical guidelines for real-time human communication services: Requirements, formats, content and presentation modes

 

Anu Kankainen and Sauli Tiitta

Exploring everyday needs of teenagers related to context-aware mobile services

 

 

 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

 

 

13:30 - 14:50 Interface Design 

Chair: Ed Israelski

Kazuo Kamata, Hideaki Maehara, Koji Wakimoto, and Sumio Usu
An Approach to the Design of Information Interface

 

Chee Weng Khong and I-Farn Chen
Icon design on public payphones: a Malaysian perspective

 

Adina Manoli
User Needs Assessment for Negotiating the QoS for Streaming Media Applications

 

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Vasilis Dermosoniadis, Panos Philippopoulos, and Christos Georgopoulos
Smart Homes: a user perspective
(This paper belongs to the session "specific applications". Due to organisational problems Vasilis Dermosoniadis presented it here remotely from Greece by means of an audio conference)

 

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14:50 - 15:10 Coffee

 

 

15:10 - 16:10 Evaluation Methods and Tools   

 

Chair: Anne Clarke

 

Chui Yin Wong
Applying Cost-Benefit Analysis for Usability Evaluation Studies on an Online Shopping Website

 

Hideaki Maehara, Kazuo Kamata, Sumio Usui, and Koji Wakimoto
Practical Design of Information Interface

 

Svein Heiestad, Bjørn Hestnes, Peter Brooks, and Trond Ulseth
Building technical laboratory set-ups for user-centred evaluation of real-time person to person communication

 

 

 


 

TUESDAY 2 Dec

(Venue: HHI)

 

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote talk 2

Design Follows Standards

Speaker: Wolfgang Dzida, Senior Scientist, ISO 9241 auditor of accredited usability laboratories, Germany

 

10:00 - 11:00 Standardization   

Chair: Martin Böcker

 

Bruno von Niman and Knut Nordby

Shaping the end user’s Tele-Europe

 

Bruno von Niman, Martin Böcker, Karl Ivar Larsson, Ian Rattigan, Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, and Aino Wihervaara
Usability challenges in standards development: Standardized character repertoires, ordering and assignments to the 12-key telephone keypad (European languages)

 

Bruno von Niman, Martin Böcker, Riitta Jokela, Mike Pluke, Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, and Kristoffer Åberg

Generic UI elements for mobile terminals and services

 

 

 

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee

 

 

 

11:15 - 12:35 Design for all - People with Special Needs   

Chair: Pedro Concejero

 


A Clarke, M Pluke, D Pollard and  W Mellors

Taking account of the needs of disabled, young and elderly people, in a future Universal Communications Identifier - requirements analysis issues

Volker Bogacki and Lutz Groh
Steps Towards a Cordless Telecommunication Device for All


M Pluke, A Clarke, W Mellors, D Pollard
Bringing benefits to the disadvantaged by providing flexibility for all


Bjørn Hestnes and Peter Brooks
"Eye-phone" – case study results from the application of videotelephony for blind people  


 

12:35 - 13:35 Lunch

 

13:35 - 14:20 Keynote talk 3

Human Factors in Convergence

Speaker: Leon van Noorden, Head of Sector, European Commission, DG INFSO D2, Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms

 

 

14:20- 15:40 Voice and Multimodal Interfaces

Chair: Leon van Noorden

 

Peer M. Shajahan and Pourang P. Irani
Improving Navigation in Touch-Tone Interfaces


Pedro Concejero, Juan José Rodríguez, and Daniel Tapias Merino
Methodology for rapid prototyping and testing of Speech Recognition user interfaces in Telefónica Móviles España

Stephen Furner, Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Lutz Groh, Patrick Perrin, and Nick Hine
Human Factors guidelines for multimodal interaction, communication and navigation

Knut Kvale, John Rugelbak and Ingunn Amdal
How do non-expert users exploit simultaneous inputs in multimodal interaction?

 


15:40 - 16:00 Coffee

 

16:00 - 17:00 Workgroups

 

 

 

 

 

18:30 - 19:00 Bus ride to Zitadelle Spandau

 

19:00 - 23:30 Banquet

 

23:30 - 00:00 Return to HHI

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 3 Dec

(Venue: HHI)

09:30 - 10:30 Mobile Communication I

Chair: Lothar Mühlbach

 

Karin Spalink
Interdependence of Navigation and Concept Structure in Mobile Small-Screen Devices

Ulrich Leiner and Pia Honold

User interfaces for mobile phones: New UI challenges and solutions for small mobile communication devices

Frank Blaimberger (presenter: Roland Keller)
An Overview about User Interface Innovations for Communication Devices

 

 

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee

 


10:50 - 12:30 Mobile Communication II

Chair: Lutz Groh

 

Tomas Klockar, David A. Carr, Anna Hedman, Tomas Johansson, and Fredrik Bengtsson
Usability of Mobile Phones   

Virpi Roto and Anne Kaikkonen
Perception of Narrow Web Pages on a Mobile Phone    

Bruno von Niman
Usability of mobile office communication solutions

Tobias Komischke, April McGee, Kathleen Stahlberg, Ning Wang, and Klaus Wissmann
Mobile Phone Usability: USA, China & Germany

Roland Buß, Detlef Runde, and Rüdiger Sniehotta
The Citizen Office in a Box – User Requirements and Usability Issues for Mobile Citizen Services

 

 

 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 - 15:30 Sightseeing Tour 

 

 

 

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee

 

15:50 - 17:30 Posters and Technical Exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY 4 Dec

(Venue: Hotel Excelsior, Hardenbergstr. 14 (see map), room "Schöneberg", ground floor)

 

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote talk 4

 

Why things should link and think

Speaker: Robert Meijer, Senior Strategist with TNO Telecom and professor in Applied Telematics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

 

10:00 - 10:40 Navigation Tools and Help Systems

 

Chair: Jens Faber

 

Paul Chojecki
Towards Generic Navigation and Orientation Tools - Problems and Solution Approach


Anke Weidlich
Experimental comparison of two help systems for Microsoft Excel according to usability criteria

 


10:40 - 11:00 Coffee

 

 

 

11:00 - 12:00 Specific Applications

Chair: Detlef Ruschin

 

Tanja Neumann (presenter: Roland Buß)
Experimental Comparison of Existing Application Sharing with a Revised Version according to Criteria of Usability

W. J. Mellors, D. Anderson, M. Böcker,  and A. Clarke
Human Factors of work in call centres

Birgit Quante and Klaus Hopf
Evaluation of a single user autostereoscopic display - an example of a user centred design cycle

 

12:00 - 12:15 Conclusion by HFT Permanent Steering Committee

12:15 - 12:30 Final discussion

12:30 - 13:00 Snack

 

13:00: End of Conference

 

 

 

Additional Contributions

The following papers were not presented at the conference but are available for download.

 

Robert W. Kerbs
An Empirical Comparison of User Color Preferences in Electronic Interface Design

Esin Kiris
Case Study: Redesign a Web Application with Emphasis on What Customers Like or Hate (Abstract)

Per Helmersen
Children - Masters of Technology? (Abstract)

 

 

 

 



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